Full Title - "Carney: White House notified of IRS targeting tea party several weeks ago; Obama: I found out Friday [VIDEO]"

White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a press conference Tuesday that the White House was notified about the IRS targeting tea party groups several weeks ago. This comes a day after President Obama said he found out about it from news reports on Friday of last week.

During a press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday, President Obama was asked about the IRS scandal. He responded, I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this. I think it was on Friday.

However, Carney said Tuesday that first a report had to be compiled by the IRSs inspector general and then when it was completed, it was passed on to the administration.

A notification is appropriate and routine and that is what happened and that happened several weeks ago, Carney said.

Carney said the White House will not make a formal statement until a complete IG report is released.

Carney said later in the press conference that although the White House was notified weeks ago about the IRS investigaton, neither he nor the president were notified individually.

“Events are going down so fast that they cant even keep the most basic of lies straight.”

It’s ok, because even though the WH is having a lover’s quarrel with the media, the media would never hold the WH accountable. It’s amazing how often the media will ignore the inconsistencies in the lies from the WH.

The ends justify the means.

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posted on 05/14/2013 11:37:02 AM PDT
by brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)

Think of it. Benghazi finally breaks open, the IRS scandal explodes out of nowhere, and then the revelation that the Justice Department grossly targeted AP. So now the media is PO'd at the Obama Admin over AP and has two downright juicy targets.

Look at Juan Williams. The left completely turned on him. His career would be over if not for FOX News. And he STILL bends himself up in a pretzel trying to defend the indefensible acts of the left.

It's a sickness, leftism. Just as Yuri Bezemenov, ax KGB said of the demoralized leftist mind, "they are ruined people".

"As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to access true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I showered him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures  even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him a concentration camp  he will refuse to believe it until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom. When a military boot crashes his butt, then he will understand, but not before that. Thats the tragedy of the situation of demoralization."

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posted on 05/14/2013 11:45:15 AM PDT
by riri
(Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)

"Carney said later in the press conference that although the White House was notified weeks ago about the IRS investigaton, neither he nor the president were notified individually."

So, the White House is notified that the IRS has committed the same behavior that was included in the articles of impeachment drafted against Nixon and nobody thought it was important enough to give Obama a heads up. And I'm supposed to believe that?

In the same presser, Midway Carney accused the Issa committee of knowing soemthing because three weeks before their underling was given access to an email copy ... twisted goose and gangled gander anyone?

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